Re: Idea submitted: Built in function to subset an array using a procedure to filter

Personally, I'd sort it to get the blanks together and then use the first one I found to quit the loop.

Unless you need the original sequence for some reason, in which case a count would also need to be added to be able to re-sequence.


Jon Paris
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On Nov 10, 2025, at 9:34 AM, David Gibbs via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM Glenn Gundermann <glenn.gundermann@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

It sounds interesting. I'd like to know a real example of how you might
use this. What project do you have that this would come in handy for?

I can think of many situations where I've wanted to iterate through an
array only including specific elements.

Right now I'm working on a situation where I need to process an array that
has blank elements that I don't need to process.

Yes, I can test the element before processing it but, IMO, it would be
better to be able to get a subset of the array with the blank elements
excluded.

david
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